The House of Twenty Thousand Books

ISBN-13: 9781905559640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str.

Sasha Abramsky

Opis

This is a heartfelt celebration of the vanished world of his grandfather's intellectual passions. This is the story of Sasha Abramsky's grandparents, Chimen and Miriam Abramsky, and of their unique home at 5 Hillway, around the corner from Hampstead Heath. In their semi-detached house, so deceptively ordinary from the outside, the Abramskys created a remarkable House of Books. It became the repository for Chimen's collection of thousands upon thousands of books, manuscripts and other printed, handwritten and painted documents, representing his journey through the great political, philosophical, religious and ethical debates that have shaped the western world. Room by room, book by book, idea by idea, the world of these politically engaged intellectuals, autodidacts and dreamers is lovingly resurrected. In this extraordinary elegy to a lost world, Sasha Abramsky's passionate narrative brings to life once more not just the Hillway salon, but the ideas, the conflicts, the personalities and the human yearnings that animated it.

O autorze

Abramsky, Sasha
Sasha Abramsky is a widely published freelance journalist and author. In the UK, his work has appeared in the Guardian, Observer, Independent and Sunday Telegraph. In the U.S. he writes for the Nation, American Prospect, New Yorker online and many other publications. His most recent book The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives was listed by the New York Times as among the one hundred notable books of 2013. Sasha Abramsky lives in California with his wife and two children.